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Find all symlinks that link to directories

Download song from youtube for import into itunes (m4a format)
Last argument is the youtube link. Requires ffmpeg

ssh tunnel with auto reconnect ability

remove recursively all txt files with number of lines less than 10

password recovery on debian
Appended to grub boot parameters ... gives shell ... password recovery

Schedule a script or command in x num hours, silently run in the background even if logged out
doesn't require "at", change the "2h" to whatever you want... (deafult unit for sleep is seconds)

dump a single table of a database to file

copy audio file from playlist to a floder
copy some file from xx.m3u to target folder

ThePirateBay.org torrent search
usage: tpb searchterm example: tpb the matrix trilogy This searches for torrents from thepiratebay and displays the top results in reverse order, so the 1st result is at the bottom instead of the top -- which is better for command line users

Do some learning...
I like it sorted... 2> /dev/null was also needless, since our pipes already select stdin, only.


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